Month: September 2025

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 One of my favorite things about the horror genre is how it’s able to distill core themes about our…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9               Well, I hadn’t planned to write an editorial about how important satire…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 CW: none. The hearth is a trope of holiday songs and stories. It’s a warm place in a cold…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9               Well, I thought that I’d talk about one of the problems with…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 The CLASSIC HORROR BLOG   Literary Essays on Gothic Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction — from  Mary  Shelley …

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Growing up, Jennifer and her friends heard multiple true ghost stories about the local cemetery and how it was…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 This is the fifth digitally-edited painting in a series of nine paintings I made last spring, which were inspired…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Nothing Is Real by Kevin J. Kennedy is this author’s first non-horror tale that veers into some very dark…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Chances are if you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you’ve read Alvin Schwartz’s notorious Scary Stories to Tell in the…